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I've worked in the media business for 30 years. Having gotten thru most of the article all I can say is that Whitlock gets what makes a good media strategy. The best editors are overly confident dictators. Groupthink doesn't work as well as a single vision that has the will to make others follow. Period. Half of the magazines/websites/news shows I've worked on or owned that had a strong editor succeeded and half failed. Every one that had a weak editor failed in spectacular fashion.
I have no doubt Whitlock is as full of himself as he's presented to be in the story. And maybe he's such a blowhard his enterprise will collapse (he lacks another essential element which is trust which engenders loyalty which makes finding success so much easier). But being headstrong about what he wants doesn't make him the rotten ogre he's portrayed as in this article.
And that's coming from someone who's not much of a Whitlock fan.
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